The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1941, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8685. ) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1941. RITISH BOMB ITALIAN FLEET B R U RSSO SepR e R GERMANS NAZIS TOLD | 10 GET OUT OF KINGDOM Even News—;;i)ermen In- structed to Leave Little Nation’s Country BRITISH EVACUATING BOTH WOMEN, CHLDREN | Navigation of German, Barges on Danube, Slav Waters, Halted (By ASSOCIATED PRESE) t zed sources in Berlin, com- | on the Yugoslavian situa-! today that Germany, her be provoked by paid | reat Britain in Yugoslav- » stand beng insulted. We will | ‘mit street mobs to determine our policies.” | At Belgrade, the German legation | ordered even German newspanaTans | to leave the country in an apparent- ) as she poses with an Gold Medal Roses The new white rose; starlite, developed in Newark, N. Y., won the gold | medal for the new varieties class at the International Floser Show in New York City. Hildegarde, cafe society singer, makes a pretty picture armful of the blooms, unusual for their strong _stems and hardiness. | ORDERED FINNSHIP IS TORPEDOED; CREW SAVED Freighter Bound from Pet- ‘ samo fo New York Sunk Off Faroe Islands HELSINKI, March 29.—The Fin- | nish freighter Carolina Thorden, of 3,600 tons, proceeding from Petsamo, Finland, tc New York, was torpedoed off the Faroe Islands, it is officially | announced today. | , Passengers and crew were snved.f The act shocked Helsinki because both bellizerents have ostensibly | sancticned sea traffic from Finland's cnly sea cutlet to the outside world. | D | Axis Ships To Attempt RunBlockade it e A A oy cenviction that the new v government. will offer no acceptaple the nation may be irivaded. | Meanwhile Yugoslavia kept silent to German demands that she clarify her position. Yugeslav section of the stream. S'afe Supreme coufl Blocks The milk of sheep, goats and hfif—i A"emD' '0 Ge' Some of Wife's Money The British apparently are expect- ing that the country may become a | v battle arena and have also ordered : A wemen and children to leave the lit- v | The Serb government has halted all navigation of German barges and falo is used for cheese-making in; many European and Oriental coun- OLYMPIA, Wash, March 20.— Oscar Palm’s attempt to prevent tle kingdom. cther Danube river craft on the tries. | County turning over $9,562 to Mrs |Lillian M. Palm has been denied {by the State Supreme Court. !’ The Palms were married in An- | chorage, Alaska. Palm left his wife five days after the marriage. Later | Mrs, Palm won $41,000 in the Ne-' | nana Ice Pool. She placed all but| 186,000 in the bank and the re-|/ mainder Palm attempted to take, ;poe.session of as manager of the| | community estate, following which| | Mrs. Palm divorced him and the| ! case is now on appeal in another WASHINGTON.—No one can ever | court. tell just what is going on in the “In another move, Mrs. Palm; Kremlin, but here is how the dip-|sought to get possession of $9,000! lomatic dispatches explain the ap- to defray living expenses and Palm | Superior Court Judge Long of King | Tanker, Two Freighters of ltaly, Germany Steal | from $. A. Porls RIO DE JANEIRO, March 2V9.— Three Axis merchantmen left Bra- % zilian ports last night apparently in a coordinated effort to penetrate the British blockade. The German freighter Dresden.‘ 5,000 tons, with a crew of 50, has not been reportéd for- eleven hours after sailing from Santos. The Italian oil tanker, Frano Mar- telli, 10,500 tons, left Recife with a| crew of 50 or 60 and the Italian freichter Frisco, 4,600 tons, left Fortaleza, | | Bashful Model 6y Dangerous - - Ji mserlll view of New York’s Erie Basin, rarti..ing the docks, vividly illustrates the More and more vital military supplies are " Yanks Win RA.F. Wings ,fi B335 ;«M‘”” 3 VESSELS DAMAGED IN QUICK RAID RAF Warplan_e; Make Sur- prise Attack in Medi- terranean Sea Sector | FASCIST SHIPS TRY T0 ESCAPE, SCATTER Air Forces Also Make Move on One Southern Section - in aly with- Success - (By ASSOCIATED PREES) An Italian battleship, a 35,000~ - | ton vessel of the Littorio class, and i showing fifteen ships ready to load crated war materials now President’s designation of America as t‘bi:‘l_l;unnl of de; ocrm & being rushed to embattled Britain, following passage of the L4 Wings TROOPSTAKE. | 10 BOATS IN - NAZIATTACK Germans Claim Raid by ® Long-Range Bombers- - Sinking of 3 Ships (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German High Command today claimed that long range Nazi bomb- ers had attacked a British troop transport about 310 miles west of Scotland and forced the soldiers to take to boats. Other Nazi claims included the two Itallan cruisers, have been se- verely damaged in an engagement with British naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean, is the an- nouncement made this morning by the British Admiralty. Details were lacking in the first official communique but it is indi- cated the British warships surprised the Italians on.the open ses, then Early this afternoon an official ctatément from Cairo, British hear- quarters, declared that British bomb- ers made heavy and successful at- tacks on Itallan warships in the Ionian Sea, hitting two cruisers and one destroyer with heavy bombs. The Royal Air Porce announced that “one of the cruisers stopped, ¢mitting black and yellow smoke, indicating it was put out of com- mission, and other bombs fell close to enemy ships, apparently doing much damage.” The Cairo communique also says British Air Porce bombers made suc- cessful attacks oh the Lecce afr- drome, south of Orindisi, southern Italy, on the east coast. 'New Bombers Shot Down in 'Government President Roosevelt Sends receivea them sutterea ‘severe nar- ‘ Drugs Are One of her younger subjects makes a bashful curtsy as she models a inew Lancashire-made cotton frock for Queen Elizabeth in Buckingham Palace, London. Duplicates of such |dresses as this are being shipped to {New York as British industry ecar- ries om despite bombing r Tracing Confaminated Tablets in Nation CHICAGO, March 20.—Hundreds of Federal inspectors and physicians are aiding in tracking down 410,000 tablets which the American Medical | » | | | Association has said were contami-| avs s |nated in manufacture. | The tablets contain a powerful se- ' dative drug. Dr Morris Fishbein, editor of the Association’s medical journal sald 1that “records already available in {Missouri and Kentucky indicate a considerable number of patients who Recogniz cosis, but that all recovered.” TWO OLDTIMERS ENTER PIONEERS Message fo King fo Resist Aggression WASHINGTON, March 29.—Pres- ident Roosevelt has given full recog- nition to the new Yugoslavian Gov- m ‘I s"“ ernment headed by boy King Pete:r —_— the Second. | Two Alaska oldtimers, both resi- The President has. sent King dents of the Territory for more than ] | ' | { | Circulafed Inspectors and Physicians} of incorporation with Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle. Incorporators are Kinloch N. Neill, G. B. Sams and Maurice T. John- son, all of Fairbanks, where main ‘offices of the corporation are lo- cated. parent shift of Russia slightly over:wught. to prevent the court from to the British side of the war scale. turning over that amount. best U. S. military observers—and | probably also by the Russians—that | July of this year or else face seri- RBERVE CQRPS ous consequences. i y v v O0ING TO ARMY 1. Tremendously increased ~mu- nitions and ship production by the| factories will really get into ',heir‘Wm- Department aunounces that stride. Fred John Rowe of Ketchikan, Al-| 3. The necessity of finding more; Seccnd Lieutenant of Infantry. oil, especially if the British succeed | ———— which they definitely plan to do. 4—The necessity of finding more m(onm‘fib pulled. ouf ‘few yiciles #% perlodlc: Monaco Mines, Incorporated, capi- France. But the rabbits have come| fewer and harder recently. The| Only answer to these dilemmas is Russia. The yast and fertile fields | All museums in Rome, except that oil fields of the Caucasus, are sure the Vi Bave. p: o 1 Hitler will' have to win his war by KH(HIKA“ MA" be: U. S. A. After July I, erica WASHINGTON, March 29.—The| for Europe next winter. from the Officers Reserve Corps as in blowing up Rumanian oil wells, | MO“A(O M'"B German people. So far Hitler has! Poland, Norway, the Low Countries, restless. —o—— ore and lying just across from the! It is now generally agreed by the | | These serious consequences Wwill 2. The necessity of finding food aska, has accepted appointment rabbit out of the hat to please the| intervals— Austria, Cfiechcnsluvakm,‘"‘ll zed at $100,000 has filed papers German people are reported to be! of the Ukraine, rich in wheat, iron, A St (Continued on Page Four) definitely because of the war. ‘for this city. Peter a message encouraging him 40 years, were admitted to the to resist Axis aggression. | Pioneers 'Home recently, according — 'to word from Superintendent Eiler cCAFFERTY COMING | onson. M TY MING | Otto William Broman, 73, came to 'Alaska in 1899 from Sweden. A Frank McCafferty, former well miner, he is entering the Home from known business man of Jurea:, Fairbanks. now residing in California, is 4 George Nylen, 71, came to Alaska Royal Britain's rapidly growing host of fighting airmen is augmented by three United States fliers who were members of the latest graduating elass at Uplands Airport, Canada. Left to right the new pilots in the t Air Force are R. C. Pearson of Hollywood, Cal.; , Storie of Gouverneur, N. Y.; J. Robertson of Hammond, Ind.; and J. D, | Marsh of Fort William, Ont. sinking of three merchant ships to- talling 7,500 tons. Auto Workers Still on Strike . InMilwaukee, - Nazi Attack Canadian Seamen Believe Germany Loses Four Long-RangePlanes CANADIAN ;.;l‘, March 29.— Merchant seamen in this unnamed port said today they believed four of Germany’s newest long range bomb- R. K. | (ONGRESSMAN By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 20— Chaff from the congressional mill: Everett M. Dirksen, the Pekin, Ill, congressman, has found an honest man and is he delighted! It was during the hearings on the independent offices appropriation bill for 1942. Mr. Dirksen, being a Republican, was often an objector. | The committee came to an item of $10,000 for maintenance of a| biological field laboratory on an| island in Gatun Lake in the Canal Zone. Work has been goingf on, there for 20-years, but without of- ficial blessing or government passenger aboard the North Coast in 1900 from Sweden. A carpenter, i ! he enters the Home from Tenakee. funds, Scientists from the' Smithsonian "HONEST MAN; 5 BILLS UP FOR THANKSGIVING ers were destroyed in a recent attack on a British conovy. ‘They said only one of the five attacking planes was seen headed homeward after the battle, which lasted an hour, and it was wobbling. They did not know how many ships in the convoy were lost, but the av- erage was believed less than one in every ten. Dcenald Jackson, seaman who saw the battle, said: “The sky was literal- ly ablaze with gunfire. Every ship of the convoy opened up with every- thing she had on the Nazi bombers.” - et 'PASSENGERS FLY T0 COAST WITH SHELL Six passengers from Juneau to the Coast winged out of Gastineau Channel this merning with pilot Shell Simmons in the Lockheed Vega. 12,000 Men Refurn as Back- fo-Work Starts-Union | Sofs " MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 29— Members of Local 248 of the United Automobile Workers Union, CIO, isaid today as they emerged from a |meeting that the membership has ivoted to continue the strike against univer- the Allis Chalmers Cempany in sub- urban Westallis. FINDS | | | | ) Institution and several sities have been doing the work) Earlier, the company had an- Mr. Dirksen has investigated. He pounced that a back to work move- found, he says, that some of the ment, launched yesterday, had gain- treatises resulting from studies on|¢d momentum and about one-third the island were: “Pleld Study on Of the normal day shift of 6,000 men the Behavior and Social Relations lad reported for work to turn out of Howling Monkeys:” “My Mon- | vitally needed national derense' key Neighbors on Bdrro Colora- £00ds. do;” and “The Adrenal Insuffi- The strike began January P clency in American Monkeys." By this time, Mr. Dirksen's ire, MRS. MESSERSCHMIDT M. Jukich' was bagad for BINS was rising. He even made the ob-| IS RETURNING HERE Inlet, Russell Olithero, Dorothy 22. i | servation that “with all the mon-, keys we have in the government,”' |Hansen and Christine Sorrell for Mrs. Henry Messerschmidt is re- Sitka, and Howard Dickson and it hardly seemed necessary for turning on the steamer North Coast Al Nowiki for Hirst. “-wmmy to go way off :; an after two months in the States. She Simmons is scheduled to return P X e LAl C Skl B has been visiting with her mother this afternoon with four passen- | in Tacoma. ¢ gers. T | (Contnuec wu Page Six) T OF YUGOSLAVIA P